Jewish Socratic Questions In An Age Without Plato

Author : Yehuda Halper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004468764

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Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato by Yehuda Halper Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Goldstein-Goren Book Award from the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and North African Jews of the 12th-15th centuries. Without direct access to Plato, their understanding of Socrates is indirect, based on legendary material, on fragmentary quotations from Plato, or on Aristotle. Out of these sources, Jewish authors of this period formed two distinct views of Socrates: one as a wise, ascetic, monotheist, and the other as a vocal skeptic. The latter view has its roots in Plato's Apology where Socrates describes his divine mandate to question all knowledge, including knowledge of the divine. After exploring how this and similar questions arise in the works of Judah Halevi and the Hebrew Averroes, Halper traces how such open-questioning of the divine arises in the works of Maimonides, Jacob Anatoli, Gersonides, and Abraham Bibago.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004685680

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Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought by Anonim Pdf

The Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126–1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for his challenging ideas about the relationship between philosophy and religion, and the place of religion in society. Among Jewish authors, he found many admirers and just as many harsh critics. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays investigating Averroes’s complex reception, in different philosophical topics and among several Jewish authors, with special attention to its relation to the reception of Maimonides.

Author : Alexander Orwin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781648250118

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Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context by Alexander Orwin Pdf

"The goal of the book is to provide an anthology covering the reception of Plato's Republic in the Islamic world, with a focus on Averroes's outstanding but underappreciated commentary on Plato's most famous dialogue. Despite the publication of Ralph Lerner's excellent English translation almost 50 years ago, very few scholarly studies have been written on it. We propose the following chapters, keeping in mind that some might be changed owing to collaboration with contributors"--

Author : David Lloyd Dusenbury
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197696187

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I Judge No One by David Lloyd Dusenbury Pdf

Why was Jesus, who said "I judge no one," put to death for a political crime? Of course, this is a historical question--but it is not only historical. Jesus's life became a philosophical theme in the first centuries of our era, when "pagan" and Christian philosophers clashed over the meaning of his sayings and the significance of his death. Modern philosophers, too, such as Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, have tried to retrace the arc of Jesus's life and death. I Judge No One is a philosophical reading of the four memoirs, or "gospels," that were fashioned by early Christ-believers and collected in the New Testament. It offers original ways of seeing a deeply enigmatic figure who calls himself the Son of Man. David Lloyd Dusenbury suggests that Jesus offered his contemporaries a scandalous double claim. First, that human judgements are pervasive and deceptive; and second, that even divine laws can only be fulfilled in the human experience of love. Though his life led inexorably to a grim political death, what Jesus's sayings revealed--and still reveal--is that our highest desires lie beyond the political.

Author : Katja Krause,Maria Auxent,Dror Weil
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000620184

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Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation by Katja Krause,Maria Auxent,Dror Weil Pdf

This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space. The volume considers experience as a tool and object of science in the premodern world, using this idea as a jumping-off point from which to view translation as a process of interaction between diff erent epistemic domains. The book is structured around four dimensions of translation—between terms within and across languages; across sciences and scientific norms; between verbal and visual systems; and through the expertise of practitioners and translators—which raise key questions on what constituted experience of the natural world in the premodern area and the impact of translation processes and agents in shaping experience. Providing a wide-ranging global account of historical studies on the travel and translation of experience in the premodern world, this book will be of interest to scholars in history, the history of translation, and the history and philosophy of science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004508668

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Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 2, 2023 by Anonim Pdf

The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies. Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jewish thought and its links to other religious traditions and secular worldviews. The Review is interested in the tension at the heart of matters of reason and faith, rationalism and mysticism, theory and practice, narrativity and normativity, doubt and dogma.

Author : Kenneth Seeskin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438419336

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Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age by Kenneth Seeskin Pdf

Clearly written, historically sophisticated, Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age presents a running dialogue between a rationalist understanding of religion and its many critics, ranging from Descartes and Hume to Kierkegaard, Buber, and Fackenheim. The author confronts such classical problems as divine attributes, creation, revelation, suspension of the ethical, ethics and secular philosophy, the problem of evil, and the importance of the Holocaust. On each issue, the author sets the terms of the debate and works toward a constructive resolution.

Author : Miriam Leonard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226472478

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Socrates and the Jews by Miriam Leonard Pdf

Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.

Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307378194

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Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein Pdf

Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.

Author : Lenn Evan Goodman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813527600

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Jewish and Islamic Philosophy by Lenn Evan Goodman Pdf

Goodman, focuses on a series of core issues common to the two intertwined philosophical traditions - freedom and determinism, the basis of ethical values, the relationship between faith and reason, the governance of God, the basis of friendship, and the meaning of history - to examine the rich and varied interactions of two traditions that have carried on a written conversation spanning the centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : WISC:89054011333

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The Dialogues of Plato by Plato Pdf

Author : Tessa Rajak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047400196

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The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome by Tessa Rajak Pdf

Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Author : John Symons,Olga Pombo,Juan Manuel Torres
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400701434

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Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science by John Symons,Olga Pombo,Juan Manuel Torres Pdf

This volume critically reexamines Otto Neurath’s conception of the unity of science. Some of the leading scholars of Neurath’s work, along with many prominent philosophers of science critically examine his place in the history of philosophy of science and evaluate the relevance of his work for contemporary debates concerning the unity of science.

Author : David Ruderman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814774205

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Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy by David Ruderman Pdf

This book represents a sample of the most penetrating Jewish movements.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X004538956

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Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman by Plato Pdf